poet · painter · photographer · writer

Gurbani
Kaur Tikku

I make things because I have to.
Poetry, paint, photographs, words — sometimes all at once.

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my eyes like the sight of you — poetry anthology The Dot. (2022) — painting collection Fiction Confusion — visual thesis in progress @teekhijalebi · @gurbaniartist paintings for sale — DM to enquire brain dump loading... gurbanikaurtikku.com my eyes like the sight of you — poetry anthology The Dot. (2022) — painting collection Fiction Confusion — visual thesis in progress @teekhijalebi · @gurbaniartist paintings for sale — DM to enquire brain dump loading... gurbanikaurtikku.com
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About
I live somewhere between what's real and what could be.
Poetry that catches moments before they dissolve. Paintings that hold the weight of isolation and distance. Photographs of everything cool enough to keep. Essays about movies, parents, personality — the stuff that doesn't have a genre but needs to be said.
Currently building Fiction Confusion — a visual thesis at the edge of simulation, the supernatural, and what it means to be human inside a world that increasingly feels like a game someone else designed.
poetry painting photography essays visual art open to commissions
Work
things made from the inside out
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Poetry
My Eyes Like the Sight of You
A poetry anthology that lives in the space between looking and being seen. Intimate, strange, and entirely itself. The kind of poems you read and feel slightly caught.
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Painting Collection
The Dot. (2022)
Feelings of isolation rendered in paint. Dot as self. Dot as distance. A series made in the particular silence of being a single point in a large, indifferent field.
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Visual Thesis — Writing + Art
Fiction Confusion
Where does human nature end and the supernatural begin? Drawings and words mapping simulation theory, gamelike realities, and the myths we live inside.
In Progress
Paintings for Sale
The Dot.
Original paintings from the 2022 collection — each one a real object, made by hand, available to own.
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these are originals. one of a kind. reach out if something speaks to you.
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Writing
Featured
On watching movies with my parents
There is a specific silence that happens when a film says something that shouldn't be said in front of family. A held breath. A sudden interest in the ceiling. I've been thinking about what that silence holds — what we inherit, what we protect each other from knowing.
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PersonalityWhy I am exactly this annoying and not more
FilmMovies that made me embarrassingly emotional
ArtMaking The Dot. and what I was avoiding
LifeOn isolation, from the inside
ThesisNotes while building Fiction Confusion
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let's talk, make something,
or just say hello.
I'm not hard to reach. Promise.
gurbanikaurtikku@gmail.com